Snow Day

Baby its cold outside, at least it was in Big Bear! The day after Christmas Kent, Amy and Kent's sisters family went to Big bear for the day. I stayed home with Hannah. I am not a big snow girl and I don't care to be cold. Plus Hannah has had a cold ever since she was sick with the swine flu and since we don't own snow clothes I thought I should stay home with her. It was great because I was able to get ALL the Christmas deco and gifts put away!!

Anyway, back to Big Bear. Here are a few pictures that Kent took.

Amy and Matthew

(FYI Matthew is a whole year younger then Amy but a whole foot taller).

Amy on the sled.

Kent said Amy did awesome sledding.

Amy and Jordan they built a snowman.

Amy again, no hat this time. I had to blow the picture up big to see who it was! LOL

Kent brought and Ice Chest full of snow home for Hannah. This is her first experience with it. She cracks me up in her PJs with daddy's hat on. She loves to wear hats.

We had a enough snow the next day to make snow balls. When Ricky got home from his class we were hiding in the garage ready to attack! Which we did!! It was so funny he had no idea what we were doing. Of coarse after we through a couple at him it was on, so I picked up Hannah and ran for the house, Amy followed. Kent got pegged in the leg and another one came crashing through the door and smacked into my dining room wall. Snow every where! HYSTERICAL. We laughed about that the rest of the night. Rick was not expecting it and thought we had lost our minds. He was laughing at us!

Hannah 18 month old stats!

I can't believe Hannah is 18 months old. Seems like yesterday she was just a baby. Anyway, on December 24, 2009 (yes, Christmas Eve) she had her 18 month check up and shots. 3 shots to be exact. She did amazing. Hannah is 24 lbs 4 oz and 31.5 inches long. The Dr. and nurse both said she was very smart and acted beyond her age. She is very talkative and has a wide vocabulary. She can put sentences in 3 words together and you can understand it. ( Not baby talk). She is starting to be interested in the potty. I have been putting her on it before her bath to get her use to it. She imitates animals sounds and loves to play. She is still a mommy's girl and I hope she stays that way! This is a rare picture with a bow. She usually pulls them out before I have the camera in hand. Isn't she cute?

My mom bought these matching outfits for the girls for Christmas and I thought they looked cute enough to post. Plus, my sister bought the boots for Amy that she doesn't want to take off. Check out Hannah's shoes I bought they are so stinking cute.

Christmas Morning

We have not had many Christmas mornings at home, but this year we did. I loved it! It was so nice to just have the 5 of us gather together and eat, laugh and be a family.

Amy and I put out cookies and milk plus sprinkled the Reindeer food on the lawn and it must of worked because when we awoke our family room was loaded with gifts from Santa.

Rick got a Mac computer, Amy got a Wii and Hannah got a Radio Flyer Trike. Plus their stockings were full of movies, underwear, socks, undershirts, gloves and other odds and ends.

Santa was good again.

Then we went into the living room and opened our gifts to one another.

I think by the smile she was pretty darn happy with what she got.

While Kent made us biscuits and gravy for breakfast the kids played Wii. We are having so much fun with that game. It is certainly something we can all do as a family no matter what your age! With Rick being so much older its hard to find something we can all do. Well, the Wii is it!

Thank you my wonderful family for a very nice and relaxing Christmas morn. I love you and am so thankful that God has given me such precious gifts... all of you!

Christmas Day with the Cotteralls

Ah, Christmas day or should I say afternoon. So after we had a VERY relaxing morning we drove to Simi Valley to spend Christmas with my family.

Here is part of the adult table. Sorry forgot to take one of the kid table.

Hannah enjoying the adult table, because she tends to through stuff when she is done eating.

Other side of the adult table.

All the grandkids: Left to right

William, Kilee, Samantha, Amy, Kory, Rick, Hannah and Luke.

My parents, we all pitched in and bought the a Wii. Its what they wanted.

My dad with his new remote for the TV!

Me and Hannah. She was so cute. She loved the gifts.

Love this kid. My niece Kilee.

My brother and his beautiful wife Mandy.

Hannah got a V-tech computer and she can't get enough of it.

Hannah.

Amy

Thanks everyone for a wonderful Christmas. Dinner was awesome mom. You did a great job on the flank steak and twice baked potatoes.

Christmas Eve with the Cozarts

Every year we rotate Christmas eve and Christmas day between both families. This year Christmas Eve was with the Cozarts. We went over to Kent's sisters house for dinner and to exchange the gifts we gave them. (They do the rest Christmas day, only bummer is we can't see what everyone gets). Kelly made a wonderful traditional Christmas dinner.

Hannah watching Amy open her gift.

Amy's Favorite gift of the night! A Hannah Montana skateboard.

My precious kids. Rick, Hannah and Amy.

Grandpa and Grandma Cozart

Gary, Jayson, Tyler Kelly

Trevor, Matthew and Jordan

Thanks for a very Merry Christmas Eve!

Have you made your Reindeer food?

Reindeer, Reindeer, pulling the sleigh, We've left you something nice today.

Oats and sugar oh so sweet, its a very tasty treat!

Merry Christmas!

All you need is Oats, sugar, glitter and a jar.

I let Amy make the whole thing, she was so excited.

Carefully getting the sugar.

adding the glitter.

All mixed and pouring into a baby food jar.

So on Christmas eve she will sprinkle the mixture on the front lawn to help the reindeer find our house. Plus the oats gives them some energy for their night of travel.

Amy's 1st grade Christmas performance

Thursday, December 17, 2009 the first graders at Amy's school sang for their parents.

Amy was s happy to see us there.

This kid is a ham, she was all about performing.

Cute

I think the kid behind her was not about the singing. What do you think?

This is when she first saw us. Look at that smile. Melts my heart.

I made her hair pretty for the performance. I think it looks cute.

Dr. Pearson Christmas party

Saturday night was my works Christmas party at the mission inn in Riverside. Because of the rain is was very crowded inside. Usually the restaurants are on the patio but they were in moved in for the rain. Here we are in the presidential lounge as you can see standing room only.

Us girls gave Dr. Pearson a tool box with a gift card to Amazon. com and moose munch. I think he liked it!! What do you think.

Dr. Pearson, thanks for another great year! Your the best!

Me, Mariella, Bonnie, Dr. Pearson, Carissa, Breanna and Kristi

After dinner we stopped by the Christmas tree for a quick photo opt.

John and Bonnie

Breanna and Scott

Thanks again Dr. Pearson. The dinner was so yummy.

Stuff!

Amy had a school project that we finally finished and she took back to school.

Its the "All about me" poster.

Turned out pretty cute.

Yesterday, after dropping Amy off at school Hannah and I headed to Simi Valley to shop with my mom and sister. So this was us arriving at the mall. Tami called shotgun so mom had to sit in the back!

Our Christmas tree with gifts finally wrapped and under it! So far Hannah has totally left the gifts alone. She only has tugged on the ornaments the first couple of days and now doesn't even care about it.

Ugh, our bar/ pool table room as a leak or two or three! The water is coming from the ground up and there is no water pooling outside. Seems bad?

I have to keep picking up the towels ringing them out in a bucket tossing in the dryer and lay more towels down. Not so much fun...... Oh, and look at the curtains, they will need to come down and get washed and that means ironed too? I don't iron. :(

I wish you could see the water on this towel. The towel couldn't absorb any more water so the water was actually pooled on top of it. BTW, Amy thought it was hilarious.

Until I post again. Have a nice wet Saturday.